Patricia Akhimie

Associate Professor

Faculty

English, Women's and Gender Studies

Tenured

Email

patricia.akhimie [at] rutgers.edu

Phone

973-353-5813

Office Location

520 Hill Hall

Office Hours

ON LEAVE

Patricia Akhimie is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark, where she teaches Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, and early modern women’s travel writing. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World (Routledge 2018). She is co-editor, with Bernadette Andrea of Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World (University of Nebraska Press 2019). Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Ford Foundation, and the John Carter Brown Library.

Courses Taught

GRADUATE COURSES

Introduction to Renaissance Studies: Race in the Renaissance

Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature

Drama and the Early Modern Household

Introduction to Archives and Advanced Research

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

Honors Seminar: Shakespeare and Race

Women in Literature to 1800

Race in the Renaissance

Gender and Genre in the Drama of the 1590s

Women's Travel Writing

Comics and Graphic Novels

Foundations of Literary Study

Shakespeare’s Contemporaries

Shakespeare

The Renaissance in England: Travel Writing in England

Reinventing Literary History: Women & Culture I: Antiquity to 1700

Reinventing Literary History: Women & Culture II: 1700 to Present

Writing the Research Proposal

Subjects

Early Modern Literature, Renaissance Drama, Shakespeare, Early Modern Travel Writing, Conduct Literature, Early Modern Women's Writing, Comics and Graphic Novels, Race, Gender, Colonialism

"The Work of Gender in Early Modern Travel Treatises: Richard Lassels’s ‘The Voyage of the Lady Catherine Whetnall from Brussells into Italy’ (1650)," Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World. Eds. Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Andrea. University of Nebraska Press (forthcoming 2018)

“‘Fair’ Bianca and ‘Brown’ Kate: Shakespeare and the Mixed-Race Family in José Esquea’s The Taming of the Shrew,” in “Shakespeare and Black America,” eds. Patricia Cahill and Kim Hall, special issue,Journal of American Studies (under review)